In a list of things in this world that are certain – a burger tastes better four wines deep, the Earth is round and Kim Kardashian’s multiple-figure bank balance – the union of Ross and Rachel was always just going to be a thing.
Eh, they had their differences, and of course, they had their ‘breaks’, but no Friends fan was ever under any illusion that they wouldn’t end up together when the narrative played out in full.
So, she got off the plane, the two came together and we mourned the loss of a show that was iconic, celebrating a relationship that would exist within the confines of our TV screens and nowhere else.
And that was it.
Or so we thought.
This week, a Twitter thread is saturating the internet with – dare I say it – particularly convincing arguments as to why Ross and Rachel should never have been, and Joey and Rachel were the real deal.
It started like this, with Juliet Mushens tweeting about the story line she’ll forever be annoyed about:
Just over an hour later came Twitter user Claire Willet, who, in the space of 100 different tweets, gave a blow-by-blow account of why Ross Geller is the worst thing to happen to the world since bad things came into the world.
It started a bit like this:
3/ I am on record as being absolutely ride-or-die anti-Ross Geller, who is for my money one of television’s all-time worst human men.
— what a weird week (@kaneandgriffin) August 8, 2017
Top Comments
Ross actually taught Rachel how to parent.
Joey was a womaniser. He might not have changed.
I agree. Ross was the worst. Jealous, petty and immature. I was so annoyed that she got off the damn plane and didn't go to her dream job in Paris.
I've rewritten the ending in my head that she got off the plane to tell Ross she loved him, but then caught a plane a few days later and he just joined her over there. No way she gave up her dream job!! (In my head)
Yeah, let's go with that, much better!
She realises Ross is a doofus,she runs